Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to John Black, late consul of the United States at the city of Mexico, the rate of compensation allowed by law to a chargé d'affaires of the United States, for his diplomatic services to the United States in Mexico during the suspension of diplomatic intercourse between Mexico and United States, from the tenth of May, eighteen hundred and forty-five, to the third day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, inclusive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be paid, as aforesaid, to the aforesaid John Black, such additional sum as may be found due by the proper accounting officers of the treasury, to cover his extraordinary expenditures incurred by him, the said Black, in consequence of his forcible expulsion from Mexico, and in bringing with him to the United States the archives of legation of the United States: Provided, however, That the sum thus allowed for indemnity shall not exceed eleven hundred and twenty-four dollars.

Approved, May 9, 1848.